FOR YOUNG HUSBANDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 4, 26 January 1899, Page 6

FOR YOUNG HUSBANDS.

'It is-strange that Ican't get my wife to mend my clothes,' remarked Mr. Bridle in tone of disgust. ' I a&ked her to sew a button on this vest this moaning and she hsisn't touched it.' ' You asked her 1' taid Mr. Norris, with a slight shrug of his shoulders. ' Yes. What else should Ido ?' ' You haven't been married very long, po perhaps you'll take a tip from me,' answered Mr. Norris, with a fatherly air. ' Never ask a woman to mend anything. That's fatal.' ' Why, wh.it do you mean ?' 'Doas I do. When I want a shirt mended, for instance, I take it in my hand and hunt up my wife. '• Where's that rag-bag Mrs. Xorris ?" I demand in a stern voice. ' " What do you want a rag-bag for ?" she says suspiciously. "•I want to throw this shirt away ; it's all worn out," I reply. ■ " Let me see," she demands. ' But I put the garment behind my back. '■ No, my dear," I answer. " There is no use in your attempting to do anything with it." "• Lft me see it," she reiterates. " But it's all worn out, I tell you. ' " Now, John, give me that shirt !" she says, in her most peremptory tone. ' I hand over the garment ' " Why, John Norris," she cries, with womanly triumph. " this is a perfectly good *hirt. All it needs is " ' And then she mends it' — Milwaukee Catholic Citizen.